Diamanda Galás -
Defixiones- Will and Testament, Orders from the Dead (2005)
"Defixiones: Orders From the Dead," an 80-minute memorial tribute to the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian victims of the Turkish genocide, deploys all the darkly expressionistic musical resources in Diamanda Galas' considerable arsenal -- from operatic shrieks to guttural growls, with stops in between for lullabies, ululations and simple (and not-so-simple) recitation.Appearing in the first of two shows at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, Galás used these techniques as she always has, to craft a dark and theatrically potent howl of defiance and despair. Her work is not for the faint of heart. Though it's been in the works for at least seven years, the piece has a certain odd timeliness. It comes on the heels of the politically charged decision to award the Nobel Prize for literature to Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, as well as France's passage of a law making it a crime to deny the Armenian genocide. In "Defixiones" (the title refers to warnings printed on gravestones against moving the remains of the dead), there are texts in Armenian, Greek, Assyrian and Turkish as well as English. Listeners not conversant in those tongues can read the translations ahead of time (once the show begins, sepulchral darkness prevails).Poems, oral testimony, news reports, Turkish propaganda -- are right at the forefront [and] Galás sings or declaims them with exemplary diction, as though the audience needed to catch every word.
DISC A
THE DANCE:
1. Ter Vogormia
2. The Desert Part I
3. The Desert Part II
4. Sevda Zinciri
5. Holokaftoma
6. Ter Vogormia (reprise)
7. The Eagle of Tkhuma
8. Orders From The Dead
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DISC B
SONGS OF EXILE:
1. Hastayim Yasiyorum
2. San Pethano
3. Je Rame
4. Epistola a Los Transeuntes
5. Birds Of Death
6. Anoixe
7. Todesfuge
8. Artémis
9. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
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